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Ability to add movies from online sources
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantJainser
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Registered: June 9, 2007
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Seems to have drifted a bit here!!!

I use Apple TV a lot and I love DVD profiler for info about films etc and when I last watched a movie etc

Oh well like someone said early on maybe something for the future - I won't be holding my breath!!!

Intersting thread though - thanks guys
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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I agree with everybody. Unnecessary.
Please use local profiles or another software for that.
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Quoting liorb22:
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I agree with everybody. Unnecessary.


It seems that everbody does not agree with you.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantAlien Redrum
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Since we now have Profiler for iPads/iPhones I actually think it's a feature that Invelos should consider at least for the app version. Physical media collectors are a dying race after all and if it widens the customer base, why not?


While I have no use for this suggestion myself, KinoNiki does have a nice point.

If you think physical media isn't a dying breed, you are only fooling yourself. It may not happen in the next few years, but it's definitely happening.

Embracing the non-physical media now would be planning for the future.
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantDr. Killpatient
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Exactly Alien.  Eventually, all media will be distributed electronically.

Netflix played a major hand at killing Hollywood Video and hurting Blockbuster. Web-based news has brought many newspapers to their knees.

It is my theory that the vast majority of at-home movie watchers don't care about the difference between Netflix HD quality and Blu-Ray HD quality.  But when the quality of streaming media matches physical media and more areas of the world become connected, physical media will vanish.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorJimmy S
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But when the quality of streaming media matches physical media and more areas of the world become connected, physical media will vanish.

and I for one will not buy movies anymore when it will happen (if it happen wich I really doubt). I collect movie I can hold in my hand, not files on a computer. At least second hand store will always exist when it will happen (even if it won't never happen) for the real collector like me.

This sound as weird to me than someone collecting stamp being happy to own only stamp images collected on the web as a collection. Sure he/she can watch them, but it isn't the real deal...
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantDr. Killpatient
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One media format eventually evolves into another.  VHS evolved into DVD, DVD evolved into Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray will evolve into something else eventually and eventually, it'll all be digital.  The old physical media became antiquated.
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorStaid S Barr
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Which then brings us all under DRM control rules: what can you watch, when/where can you watch it, how many times can you watch it...

Fortunately the old antiquated physical media are out of control when they leave the shop.
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It is my theory that the vast majority of at-home movie watchers don't care about the difference between Netflix HD quality and Blu-Ray HD quality.  But when the quality of streaming media matches physical media and more areas of the world become connected, physical media will vanish.


Yep. Especially if you take in the fact that in a few years the kids that are buying music via iTunes now and streaming via Netflix will be adults and this they will be satisfied with what streaming gives them as they have been used to that quality.

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This sound as weird to me than someone collecting stamp being happy to own only stamp images collected on the web as a collection. Sure he/she can watch them, but it isn't the real deal...


Don't get me wrong, I too would rather have the physical media in my hand. I'm just a realist and know that streaming is the future.

Oddly, I absolutely love netflix streaming, too. It enables me to have access to a ton of TV shows that I don't want to buy. Currently I have the best of both worlds, but I do know that these good times will be limited.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorJimmy S
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VHS evolved into DVD, DVD evolved into Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray will evolve into something else eventually and eventually, it'll all be digital.

As I said I'm a collector. I can hold my VHS collection in my hand and I can hold my DVD collection in my hand, but I can't hold a digital download...

Like I said digital download doesn't interest me at all, whatever it is the future or not. I'm a collector I want to have something to show on my walls, I want to hold a box, I want to look a cover,... I don't want to say look at my collection you can't see, touch and feel because it's only in my computer.

The day it will happen it will be game over for me... just a question of personal taste for me and for many others.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
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In fact, who cares about the exact number?

My thoughts exactly.  Seems like arguing for the sake of arguing to me.

Precisely and my point to Kulju in my original posting. He simply wanted to p[ick an argument. And beyond that I;kknot dignify his comments with further comment, he doesn't deserve it with the language he uses. The only thing i will add een 50TB is NOT economically feasible. PERIOD
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Quoting Alien Redrum:
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Since we now have Profiler for iPads/iPhones I actually think it's a feature that Invelos should consider at least for the app version. Physical media collectors are a dying race after all and if it widens the customer base, why not?


While I have no use for this suggestion myself, KinoNiki does have a nice point.

If you think physical media isn't a dying breed, you are only fooling yourself. It may not happen in the next few years, but it's definitely happening.

Embracing the non-physical media now would be planning for the future.

I completely agree with this. While I don't think the general public will easily give up their physical media, digital media will become more dominant in the market.
Adapting Profiler to include this format more easily seems a sensible idea.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantMark Harrison
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In fact, who cares about the exact number?

My thoughts exactly.  Seems like arguing for the sake of arguing to me.


It may well be arguing for the sake of arguing.  Still, I learned quite a bit from it and am glad they did argue.
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I don't know about you, but it would really suck to have a disc fail on a JBOD system

My understanding is with JBOD, you only lose what's on the failed disc. The remaining disks are all still OS readable. There's no striping involved. So with no backup, it's safer than RAID 0.

I'm not really sure how Unraid is any safer than RAID 5  or RAID 6.


I'm putting together a video jukebox using the Dune HD player. I'm going to be storing my DVDs first, Blus later. I'm doing single title MKV and stripping out unneeded audio and subs, unless its a disc that has special features I want, and then I store the whole thing.

Right now I'm just using a RAID 1 data drive on my main PC, but I'm planning to pick up a QNAP or Synology 2-disc NAS for starters because they will also run some additional Squeezebox Server and webserver software I need. Additional storage and backup devices won't have to be quite that powerful, just enough to stream 1080p.

Honestly, the hard part was running the network cable from my home office to the living room.



Oh, and been a long time since I posted here. 
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantJainser
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Well here we are back on topic!

I did a local 'thing' Found a nice little iTunes icon which comes up under the General info box and also added an iTunes logo above both the front and rear image. Looks good (in my humble opinion!)

Thanks for the (local) idea

Pete
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantDr. Killpatient
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nolesrule, if the JBOD array are spanned, it's all one drive to the OS. If drive 2 out of 3 drive JBOD fails, then the OS sees a large chunk of bad sectors if the RAID driver allows the array to mount.

The way UNRAID is better than RAID 5 or 6 is that if the total number of failed drives is greater than the number of parity drives, your entire RAID array is lost.  With UNRAID, you only lose the drives that failed, the rest are still available since the file system on each drive is independent.

Another feature of UNRAID is that you can have multiple copies of a file but only see one instance. I have a share called "Boxee" with a directory under it named "Movies". I copy two movies onto it and the way I have it set up, it copies the movies onto the drive with the most available space.

The Drive1 share sees:
Boxee\Movies\Movie 1.mkv

The Drive2 share sees:
Boxee\Movies\Movie 2.mkv

The "Boxee" share sees a combined listing:
Movies\Movie 1.mkv
Movies\Movie 2.mkv

If I copy Drive 1 onto Drive 3, I would have Movie 1.mkv on multiple drives but would still only see one occurrence in the Boxee share.  If I lost drive 1, the movie on drive 3 will still be available and it will be the reference in the combined Boxee listing.

I'm thinking that this is how I'm going to make my data redundant/backup.  UNRAID can support 20 drives. I'll fit my collection onto 9 drives, and copy the contents of drives 1-9 onto drives 10-18. I could also reduce the number of movies having to be re-ripped by copying the data onto the 2nd set of drives but not as mirrors of the first set, let the OS scatter the files around.
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